my life…in text format

I missed a week. Sorry. Ingenuity and Pandemonium.

Thankfully there wasn’t one huge thing that went wrong this past week. Unfortunately there wasn’t a huge blinding moment of shear creative brilliance I can write about either.

Our set up for services includes 4 large free standing canvases. They are painted with the youth name and a cool artsy design. Two weeks ago, during our Wednesday evening service for teenagers we had a guest speaker. Towards the end of his sermon, he was giving an altar call and two of the members of the praise and worship band started to play a song. As the momentum picked up, the music was gearing up, the drummer walked towards the stage to add a nice rhythm to the music.

Well…he took a bad route to the stage and moved one of those canvases just enough for him to get through…it was a little too much movement.

He let go of the piece and noticed that it was no longer secure. He grabbed a hold of it started to fix it and went to let go of it again…and again it started to fall.

All this is happening right in front of the stage.

I realized what was happening and quickly walked behind the canvas and grabbed a hold of it so he could go play the drums.

I spent the rest of the service behind that frame of stretched canvas just hoping that I wouldn’t lose my grip and somebody who had come up to start or further a relationship with Jesus Christ didn’t get knocked in the head with a piece of canvas.

I was able to get it secure again, but it was a slightly terrifying moment nonetheless.

How was your week?